Here is the abstract:
Among many changes in creative practices in music during the nineteenth century was the freer treatment of the ninth above the dominant, including independent V9 harmonies. This essay discusses songs composed, performed, and published in the United States from roughly 1890 to 1920. Composers include, among others, Beach, Hageman, Herbert, MacDowell, Nevin, Rogers, and Sousa.Here is the table of contents:
Introduction
Amy (Mrs. H. H. A.) Beach
“Sweetheart, sigh no more!” (1891)
“The Summer Wind” (1891)
“The Thrush” (1891)
“Far awa’!” (1899)
“Forget-Me-Not” (1897)
“Good Morning” (1902)
“Juni” [June] (1903)
Edward MacDowell
“Long ago, sweetheart mine,” op. 56n1 (1898)
“Constancy,” op. 58n1 (1899)
“Tyrant Love,” op. 60n2 (1902)
Rupert Hughes, ed., Songs by Thirty Americans (1904)
James H. Rogers, “April Weather” (1899)
Harry Rowe Shelley, “The Ride” (1904)
Nathaniel Hyatt, “The Spring of Love” (1900)
Rubin Goldmark, “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” (1904) Anthology of American Songs: A Collection of Twenty-Six Songs by Representative American Composers (1911)
James H. Rogers, “At Parting” (1886)
Harry Rowe Shelley, “Love’s Sorrow” (1888)
Ethelbert Nevin, “Serenade” (1884)
C. Whitney Coombs, “Her Rose” (1905)
Henry Hadley, “Rose-Time” (1910)
Victor Harris, “April” (1908)
Albert A. Mack, “Forever and a Day” (1903)
Richard Hageman, “At the Well” (1919)
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